HELP MAIL IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

well, this computer was formatted and had tiger as a fresh install, and so was the same with all its mail. i will read into you response and try tomorrow, and will prob be in contact with you over here in this post seeing as how mail is so screwy.

last week i called home and had someone send me something from iphoto . . when i came home they had managed to turn off the tool bar, move some folders around and delete a few things . . argh some people should not be let near computers . . even macs. these problems did not occur until then, and i have set everything back up the way i had it.

i did pull the pref file, do a restart, then cancel the set up, put the file back and start mail again, and it did update something (dont remember what) but i got a message and progress bar while it did it.

i will read the article tomorrow and try what you have suggested

my **** thread is being hijacked!!

ernie are you on right now? ichat maybe?

k well, i got an email, that things had changed in here, mac doodle had another message . . u posted one telling him hes breaking rules, and then i post this and both your messages are gone . . i feel like i am going crazy??

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ahh, now both your posts are back, im not computer impaired i swear, to add to this, every time i open mail it acts like its sending something, if i send more then one email, especially with attachments it will only send one at a time, and i have to close mail and open it and it will send the next until they are all done having to do that everytime in between each message.

it is also grabbing email and showing it as fresh email that i got earlier today and yesterday.

but im burned out, confused why posts are appearing and disappearing on this thread depending on what button i hit . . im going to bed ill work on this tomorrow, ernie i will let you know tomorrow and prob have questions.

nite.

okay try again to keep it simple and on point.

always had tiger.

family member got on and in 10 min managed to destroy mail just sending a few pics from iphoto.

never had problems with mail before.

for multiple business reasons i NEED to fix with without losing everything, from messages, so signatures, to folders and mail in my inboxes.

It will keep putting messages already sent in outbox and send each time mail is started. causing clients, friends and family to get some emails over 10 times! these are usually recently sent emails.

Picks sent, deleted and messages currently in my inbox and puts them in drafts, i can delete them, click a different folder, source or inbox and come back with a new random draft from another folder, i can delete them but it takes about 10-15 message later and it stops.

i am getting copies of messages i sent to others showing up as new mail in my inbox showing they are sent from my addresses

i am receiving emails, that i have already pulled and downloaded off of my ISP servers and gets them 2,3 sometimes 5+ times as new mail.

this is all very confusing to me, usually mail works SO good. the only thing i can say from when the family member used it, was they managed to just open iphoto send some pics and turn off the toolbar and do all this, i told them how to turn on the toolbar again (over the phone) and they swore they didnt turn it off, it was off, weather that is true or not i am not sure, they are just computer smart enough to get into trouble and im sure it was done un-intentionally. but these problems started shortly after that, right around that time.

can we please fix this doing something that wont result in my losing all my email. i looked into you earlier post ernie and it didnt make much sense, but its something i am completely un-familiar with.

maybe ichat, or email session, or if not if there is a simple fix for here, please let me know this is starting to interfer with business, i am going to start using ISP webmail to avoid these problems.

outbox.mbox = 11.2 mb - contains only a folder named messages, which contains only 8633.emlx as its only file

first yes all these problems did occur well sending high res big pictures via email from iphoto. and yes a few were to big to get through the server. but all this as a result?


well i dragged the stuff out, it made a new outbox.mbox but started mail again and its still grabbing mail from the previous day, and calling it new mail, which really screws up my inbox if conversations were in order . . and still sends a message to im not sure who or where everytime i start it . . i see the little b&w swirl and then hear the mail taking off sound.

blah

well its acting fixed, let me use it a bit over the weekend, and i'll know for sure, that might have done it.

i had to go into all my inboxes and clean out all the mail i had delete before that had been acting up. but that is prob cause it was all out of wack.

i will post an update shortly and hopefully change this to answer!! thanks ernie!

worked awesome for weeks now!